It was another excellent week for comments and debate, dominated by the anti-Democracy hit list and the topic of assisted suicide. Plenty of other posts received a lot of comments, but those two stole the show.
The result was a lot to read through to find a remark that tickled my comment of the week fancy. There were a lot of excellent contributions, so you continued to make the task at hand difficult.
One side note: Jeanne Dietsch chimed in under the piece about her list of 500 anti-democracy granite staters, and it got seventeen downvotes. I think that’s a record. Feel free to put it on your resume, Jeanne, and thanks for coming back for more. The comment community was happy to engage.
As for this week’s winner, there were plenty of runners-up, tons of excellent stuff – even Skip found a tie to join the fun (he comments as ‘GraniteGrok’ if you didn’t know), but there can be only one.
Jim Peschke summed up a lot of what many people said succinctly and, as a long-time commenter, managed to eke out this week’s win.
Nobody cares about you personally, Jeanne, nor are we interested in your narrow-minded views on libertarianism or any other economic/political philosophy.
By producing and endorsing this Nixonesque “enemies list,” you have shown your true colors, and they are damning.
Guilt by association, Thoughtcrime, political persecution, and intolerance. These are the ideas that will forever be spoken in the same breath as “Jeanne Dietsch.”
I confess that Invoking Nixon did it for me because of its McCarthyesqe undertones. Democrats project like mad, alluding to witch hunts that they engage in frequently. It dovetails nicely with the lie that they put people before politics, which is impossible. To a true Dem, there is only politics, and you can’t line up the dissenters after the revolution if you don’t have a list.
Congrats to Jim, who needs to email me: steve@granitegrok.com.
